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>> yes, we do. >> four more days to gop. so montgomery burns endorses mitt romney for president. simpson style. >> who do you like better broccoli obama or meat romney? who do you want to take care of you for the next four years? >> [ inaudible ]. >> mr. burns announced his decision sitting next to binders full of women. president obama getting high profile help on the campaign trail, jay-z joining the president in ohio. bruce springsteen will be there as well. actress eva longoria joined the president in las vegas yesterday and stevie wonder teamed up with the first lady. one of the president's supporters in colorado was not happy when someone stole his obama lawn sign. he put this up inside. see this. a romney fan stole my obama sign. do it again and you will make my day and tv news. that is it. former president john kennedy is urging voters to cast their ballots on november 6, 1962, taped this ad from the white house a few days before those midterm elections. >> there is one way you can indicate your devotion to freedom, there is one way in which we can show how strongly we be
>> yes, we do. >> four more days to gop. so montgomery burns endorses mitt romney for president. simpson style. >> who do you like better broccoli obama or meat romney? who do you want to take care of you for the next four years? >> [ inaudible ]. >> mr. burns announced his decision sitting next to binders full of women. president obama getting high profile help on the campaign trail, jay-z joining the president in ohio. bruce springsteen will be there as well....
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what about the next four years? what would a romney presidency really look like. joining me to nothiprognosticati melber, neera tanden, kate ton dawson. let's start with the tax plan. if there is something i believe mitt romney is invested in doing, it is the tax plan. he claims it is revenue neutral. >> you have to claim certain things. this goes for both sides. there is this thing called business cycle. this is what we study. in a free market economy, recessions and recoveries, upswings and down swings are part and parcel of the world we live in. when you look at how budgets are proposed, off of the congressional budget office projection. they are not that realistic. in 2014, 2015, 2016, they are projected real gdp growth of 4.4%. sounds pretty good. how realistic is it? if you take a look at reality, what's happened since the beginning of the century? gdp has grown at 1.7% and we know we are in a pretty sluggish economy. there is a huge disconnect between what's proposed and what's going on outside this window? >> that's the big deal. the claim is, i'm going to
what about the next four years? what would a romney presidency really look like. joining me to nothiprognosticati melber, neera tanden, kate ton dawson. let's start with the tax plan. if there is something i believe mitt romney is invested in doing, it is the tax plan. he claims it is revenue neutral. >> you have to claim certain things. this goes for both sides. there is this thing called business cycle. this is what we study. in a free market economy, recessions and recoveries, upswings...
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. >> i'm sorry, for romney in the next few days or he's a disaster in the next four years. >> i think the thing about chris christie on the "fox and friends" things, that he's disingenuous, that it's stagey, he shouts down reporters in press conferences, i think what we see here, this is actually chris christie, this is the way that he is. when he believes the president is being attentive and doing a good job for the people of new jersey, he doesn't care and he's not going to mow-mow to people on fox or anyone. i was rather impressed. at the end of all this he did get a mention from bruce springsteen who he's a big fan of and he's actually said in a concert, this is true, and said the governor has -- >> someone said, some conservative on twitter said that's what this is all about! he said it wasn't about -- it's not about mitt romney or anything to get to obama. >> this is interesting thinking about why is it that the public doesn't -- the public would not tolerate a republican governor saying i am not going to accept money from the federal government to help get the lights back on. w
. >> i'm sorry, for romney in the next few days or he's a disaster in the next four years. >> i think the thing about chris christie on the "fox and friends" things, that he's disingenuous, that it's stagey, he shouts down reporters in press conferences, i think what we see here, this is actually chris christie, this is the way that he is. when he believes the president is being attentive and doing a good job for the people of new jersey, he doesn't care and he's not going...
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the percentage has gotten closer, enthusiasm is higher for romney at the moment. >> i think four years ago everyone was obviously so enthused and they hadn't seen anything like this before. when i travel on the road, it almost seems like a bit of a bad break-up. not necessarily with president obama, but government at large. i think the idea that governor romney is a businessman and can help our back pockets goes a long way. maybe that's something we are seeing on the road. >> one of the issues you and i were talking about this earlier, that the president brought up is the issue of same-sex marriage. marriage equality. i'll quote what he said. he said i have been very clear about my belief that same-sex couples have to be treated before the eyes of the law as heterosexual couples. he went on to say, what i also said historically is marriages have been defined at the state level. is this next election, when it comes to youth, are they going to look at social issues more or more economic issues? >> i think social issues do mean a great deal to us. when you look at guy marriage as the next
the percentage has gotten closer, enthusiasm is higher for romney at the moment. >> i think four years ago everyone was obviously so enthused and they hadn't seen anything like this before. when i travel on the road, it almost seems like a bit of a bad break-up. not necessarily with president obama, but government at large. i think the idea that governor romney is a businessman and can help our back pockets goes a long way. maybe that's something we are seeing on the road. >> one of...
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-- i won't say compliment -- a suggestion that mitt romney is a mysterious, unknown, intangible plu plutocrat with horses that dance and he's not someone that anyone knows and should not be trusted. >> to your point we come back to where we were in the narrative about mitt romney. he won't answer the question about fema. we see him running away from the questions. won't answer questions about the tax records. >> which the president reminded us. >> exactly. won't answer the question. on both sides we come back to kind of where we started with both of these men. can you trust the guy who is not going to give you answers, who is all over the map on the position or are you you going to trust the guy who, colin powell by the way, in case you forgot, gave a stellar endorsement to, who is efficient, got it done, and does understand what this is all about. >> he hasn't got continue done yet. >> but think about this in terms of the theory of government, fema has to have reserve of money ready to go before the storm, not after. that's part of what president obama did. part of the cuts that, a
-- i won't say compliment -- a suggestion that mitt romney is a mysterious, unknown, intangible plu plutocrat with horses that dance and he's not someone that anyone knows and should not be trusted. >> to your point we come back to where we were in the narrative about mitt romney. he won't answer the question about fema. we see him running away from the questions. won't answer questions about the tax records. >> which the president reminded us. >> exactly. won't answer the...
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by comparison in the next four days, hurricane sandy will replace mitt romney, does he have momentum or not story as the lead of nearly every swing state newspaper and newscast. the lead story will not be something that goes along like today, romney took his message of change to fill in the blank. and finally, the storm could put a premium on mechanics. and while the romney campaign is certainly a lot better than john mccain's 2008 operation, the more this race focuses on mechanics, the better it is probably for the obama campaign. asked whether the storm could affect early voting, the president said that remains to be seen. >> we don't anticipate that at this point, but we're obviously going to take a look. >>> well, it's the october surprise. that we know. and the thing we don't know is what is exactly the impact going to be? we've got a lot of storm coverage to get to, and we'll get to that next. we'll go to point pleasant beach, new jersey. the storm is already kicking up serious waves there. we'll also head to florida. a state that knows storms well. that's where the president w
by comparison in the next four days, hurricane sandy will replace mitt romney, does he have momentum or not story as the lead of nearly every swing state newspaper and newscast. the lead story will not be something that goes along like today, romney took his message of change to fill in the blank. and finally, the storm could put a premium on mechanics. and while the romney campaign is certainly a lot better than john mccain's 2008 operation, the more this race focuses on mechanics, the better...
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i travel with romney four years ago during his race back when he was actually happy to talk about this. before the financial crisis, before obama care became a political issue and i watched him make a very compelling case for how his experience as a management consultant made him understand what was wrong with the health care system, translated into government when he became massachusetts governor. he had an understanding of the problem and that was what launched his health care law that was ultimately successful. so i think it would have been tougher to do in this climate, obviously. but he has a story that he can tell. four years ago he wasn't afraid to tell it. i think this time around he was and it's really hurt him. >> mark halperin? >> let me ask you about the president and business. if the president won re-election, do you think big business would give him another chance, say that we're going to work with this guy that's going to be president for four more years, or do you think there's too much bad blood between them? >> that's a great question. talking to the ceos as i do on a
i travel with romney four years ago during his race back when he was actually happy to talk about this. before the financial crisis, before obama care became a political issue and i watched him make a very compelling case for how his experience as a management consultant made him understand what was wrong with the health care system, translated into government when he became massachusetts governor. he had an understanding of the problem and that was what launched his health care law that was...
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mitt romney will be in many of those same states over the next four days, although he's hitting pennsylvania and skipping florida. president obama was back on the trail yesterday after a three-day break to oversee the storm recovery. rallying to a crowd of 10,000 in colorado. the president made what some are saying was a jab at his opponent's tendency to change his mind. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you know me. you may not agree with every decision that i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change. i always remind people that when we did the auto bailout, only 10% of the country approved of it. including, by the way, folks in michigan and ohio. but you know what i believe. you know where i stand. you know i'm willing to make tough decisions even when they're not politically convenient. >> mitt romney also returned to pre-hurricane attack mode yesterday. at a rally in virginia, romney blasted the president for suggesting in his interview earlier this week with joe and me that he'd consider creating a new secretary of business in a second term. >> i've said
mitt romney will be in many of those same states over the next four days, although he's hitting pennsylvania and skipping florida. president obama was back on the trail yesterday after a three-day break to oversee the storm recovery. rallying to a crowd of 10,000 in colorado. the president made what some are saying was a jab at his opponent's tendency to change his mind. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you know me. you may not agree with every decision that i've...
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to obama, but i think among the sliver of people who, you know, probably voted for obama four years ago and are not sure now, i think this could help. >> how many do you think there are? >> standing next to chris christie helps. >> -- in cincinnati or waukesha, wisconsin -- >> it helps with the media though. it helps with our point of view. let me ask you, everybody goes by the polls and they tend to be 47/47 which means six people haven't made up their mind. i'm asking you as a pro. aren't there a lot of people who are more like the group you described, voted for obama once, worried about him this time, may go with the other guy if he has a good night. can they come back from the first debate saying i'm back where i was? how many of them are there potentially? >> i think there are some out there. but the question is how many of them have early voted? the proliferation of early voting, there were some voting after the first debate, between the second and third debate. i think there are some of those who are not sure and have been looking for a sign. if you haven't voted sort of righ
to obama, but i think among the sliver of people who, you know, probably voted for obama four years ago and are not sure now, i think this could help. >> how many do you think there are? >> standing next to chris christie helps. >> -- in cincinnati or waukesha, wisconsin -- >> it helps with the media though. it helps with our point of view. let me ask you, everybody goes by the polls and they tend to be 47/47 which means six people haven't made up their mind. i'm asking...
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north carolina's a dead heat, a "washington post" poll heading down four, mitt romney down by four in virginia. it seems like every single state is thrown up in the air. a lot of consternation on both sides, and would you agree neither side has any idea who is going to win this race. >> yeah. i think we'll go into next tuesday blind, frankly. i don't think either side will have confidence. both think that they'll win, but neither will have a lot of confidence in that, i think. >> i disagree, i think they're confident. >> well, but i think -- >> and maybe they're bluffing, but they really believe they're winning. >> i think there'll be real nervousness going into the evening and waiting for those exits. >> there should be. >> and i wonder how much is bravado and bluster. i've talked to both sides, they both say convincingly that they're going to win. so, you know. >> well -- >> joe, chicago fundamentally believes the demographics are going to keep -- demographics and this organizational advantage they have in ohio and iowa are just making it impossible for romney to get to 270. they be
north carolina's a dead heat, a "washington post" poll heading down four, mitt romney down by four in virginia. it seems like every single state is thrown up in the air. a lot of consternation on both sides, and would you agree neither side has any idea who is going to win this race. >> yeah. i think we'll go into next tuesday blind, frankly. i don't think either side will have confidence. both think that they'll win, but neither will have a lot of confidence in that, i think....
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and an hour later, "the washington post"/abc poll, wait, romney's down four. an hour later "the des moines register" decides they're going to endorse a republican since nixon. a minnesota poll that shows romney within the margin of error in minnesota. there are no trend lines here, are there? >> well, i would say this. there's no trend lines in the battleground states. i think that that is a fair assessment. i think what we see in minnesota and i think i saw -- we're seeing examples of it even in bluer states, if you will, and in some redder states is it's clear mitt romney's going to outperform john mccain in a lot of states he's going to lose and a lot of states he's going to win. i think it's fair to say that the idea of the split is very possible. that mitt romney's -- sort of the sheer momentum. and there is sort of two forces at work here in this campaign, right? the obama campaign metrics the census and demographics versus joe, i think what you and i feel like we see going on in this campaign the last two weeks, which is the good old-fashioned, well, wh
and an hour later, "the washington post"/abc poll, wait, romney's down four. an hour later "the des moines register" decides they're going to endorse a republican since nixon. a minnesota poll that shows romney within the margin of error in minnesota. there are no trend lines here, are there? >> well, i would say this. there's no trend lines in the battleground states. i think that that is a fair assessment. i think what we see in minnesota and i think i saw -- we're...